Some of my courses satisfy the University's CORE Distributive Studies requirement. Learning Outcome Assessment goals relevant to the kinds of courses I teach include the following items from the general list given on the CORE webpage at http://www.ugst.umd.edu/core/LearningOutcome.htm:

Broadly, after completion of CORE Program requirements students should be able to:

More specifically, for courses satisfying the HO (Humanities: Language, Culture, and Philosophy) requirement, students should be able to:

The discipline in question in my courses is philosophy, and indeed Western philosophy -- in fact, Ango-American (often called "analytic") philosophy. To this extent a specific cultural standpoint is assumed -- as necessary in order to be dealing with authors and positions that actually address the same questions in language that lets them "speak to each other." But usually what they're doing is speaking against each other. So in that sense my courses stress diversity of opinion and outlook. Even where I favor a particular view myself, criticism of others proceeds from trying to understand the reasons for them. Nor are students ever expected to share my opinion, but just to work out reasonable arguments for not doing so.